I was part way through writing Just Like Home, and I thought, ‘Oh, all these books are kind of about the same thing, aren’t they?’ The unlikable female protagonist is really delightful to me. “I should clarify that I did not make this a triptych on purpose – I only realized it in hindsight, as almost all patterns emerge. Those two books, in particular, are deeply in conversation with each other. Where The Echo Wife is about how marriage and adult relationships and careers form an identity from the outside, Just Like Home is about how formative relationships and upbringing create a person from the inside. “My first three books for grown-ups, Magic for Liars, The Echo Wife, and Just Like Home, are all part of an unofficial triptych about unlikable female protagonists, where the narratives ask questions about the origin of the self. They won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2018. Gailey is also an accomplished critic, nominated in 2017 for a Hugo Award for a series of blog posts at Tor.com. Their latest book is haunted house tale Just Like Home (2022).
Other novels include YA fantasy When We Were Magic and adult SF novel The Echo Wife (2021). Gailey’s debut novel, Magic for Liars (2019), is a magical school mystery.
Other notable short works include Hugo Award nominees ‘‘STET’’ (2018), ‘‘Away with the Wolves’’ (2019), and Upright Women Wanted (2020). Gailey began publishing work of genre interest with ‘‘Stars’’ in 2015, and made a big splash with alternate-history novella River of Teeth (2017), a Hugo and Nebula Award finalist, and sequel Taste of Marrow (2017) those were later collected, along with two related stories, as American Hippo (2018). They studied theater at the American Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and managed a theater company in the East Bay for a few years. SARAH GAILEY was born Februand grew up in Fremont CA.
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